David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller (12 June 1915-20 March 2017) was an American banker who was chairman and CEO of the Chase Manhattan Corporation from 1969 to 1980.

Biography
David Rockefeller was born in New York City, New York in 1915, and he was a member of the prominent Rockefeller family; he was the younger brother of Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller. He graduated from Harvard in 1936 and served as secretary to Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia for eighteen months, effectively serving as deputy mayor. During World War II, Rockefeller served in North Africa and France, rising to the rank of Captain in 1945. In 1945, he joined Chase Bank, and he rose to become president in 1960 and CEO in 1969. Like many other members of his family, he was a liberal Republican Party member, but he declined his brother Nelson's offer to appoint him to the late Robert F. Kennedy's vacant US Senate seat in 1968, and also declined President Jimmy Carter's offer to make him Secretary of the Treasury. He retired from Chase in 1980, and he was the patriarch of the New York Rockefellers from 2004 until his death in 2017.